Housing benefit funds family’s dash to Isis

Shahan Choudhury was ‘brainwashed while on remand over a gang murder’INTERNET

A former suspect in a teenage gang murder who was radicalised in prison has become the latest disciple of the hate preacher Anjem Choudary to be recruited by Isis.

Relatives fear that soon after Shahan Choudhury travelled to Syria, he was joined by his wife, Mehak, and their three young children, including a baby. Since vanishing from the couple’s London flat last year, Mehak has used Twitter to urge other British Muslims to head to the Middle East war zone or carry out attacks in the UK.

A Sunday Times investigation found that the family’s journey may have been funded by housing benefit payments.

At least a dozen acolytes of Anjem Choudary have managed to join Isis — even though some of them were on the…

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